IDF probing charge that troops killed wounded suspect

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/510895.html

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"The Israel Defense Forces is investigating a claim by the B'Tselem human rights group, which said Monday there was "serious suspicion" that IDF troops who killed a wanted Islamic Jihad man in the West Bank over the weekend shot him to death while he was lying on the ground, wounded and unarmed. The group based its claim on the testimony of two Palestinian witnesses."

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"The IDF said at the time that troops surrounded the house where Kamil, 27, was staying, and instructed everyone inside to come out. The army said Kamil was armed with a pistol and that troops shot him when he tried to escape."

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"But according to the testimony collected by B'Tselem, when Kamil was killed, his weapon had already been taken away from him and he was lying wounded on the ground after having been hit by an initial round of shooting. The witnesses - Tayil Muhammad al-Bazur, 45, and Suleiman Qasrawi - also said soldiers threatened them at gunpoint and forced them to carry Kamil and search his body.

The IDF investigation will focus on whether the troops shot Kamil to death after he had already been wounded and on whether the soldiers sent the two Palestinian residents to examine Kamil after he had been wounded, in violation of military directives and a High Court of Justice ruling. Sending the Palestinians to check on Kamil would fall under the "neighbor practice," also known as the use of human shields, which the High Court banned a year and a half ago because it can endanger innocent bystanders."

[drdon326]

1. I condemn this as a waste of explosives and people.

(with credit to number 6)